I've been neglecting the blog this past week. this past week has DRAGGED on by.

Last night was so much fun. I went to Vicki's house to finish the euro project. of course, we "worked". Actually, we DID! We finished very quickly too, with the help and inspiration of McFly blaring from the TV.. Danny's so adorable.

We dedicated practically the entire last page of the scrapbook to McFly, for their wonderful inspiration. Vicki and I can NOT function/work on the scrapbook without the Wonderland Tour playing.

According to Amy, "Elaine has a serious emotional attachment to that scrapbook. She shifted 30 pages today just to fit one page in. It's like her child."
Yes that scrapbook is like my child. I love it dearly. It is perfect. It has lots of Danny in it, and the absolute cutest picture of Dougie.

I'm being very nostalgic at the moment.
I literally cried a river yesterday writing in Andy's yearbook. I spent like an hour and a half writing in it (Kathleen joined me for like an hour). Andy took a nap beside me and when he woke up, I was sobbing. It was bad. At the beginning, I told him I teared up writing Shayne's, so he was like, "YOU'RE GOING TO WEEP OVER MINE!"
And I did. so I was laying down and writing it and when I got up, there was literally a PUDDLE where my face had been.

I almost made Hayley cry with my yearbook entry though, and I wrote 3 pages for Shayne! I love signing yearbooks for people I care about. It just takes a while though. I was in yearbook-signing-rampage-mode today. Actually, I was just hyperactively weird today.

But now I'm in depressed nostalgic mode.

This past school year has been a really big test. If I had to come up with a theme for it, it'd be, "In With the New". No disregard for great old friends, but it's really been momentous changes all over the place.
I've been signing yearbooks and I've realized just how many of the people that I really care about/write pages for have the line, "I feel like I've known you forever and it's only been a year (half a semester in Vicki's case)."

It's funny how quickly some relationships can grow. I've been to Vicki's house three times in the past two weeks, and her mum's already calling me, "My other daughter... Asian, but more English inside than my other daughters." I live there practically.

But yeah... many of my closest friends are kids that last year I didn't even know. Shayne, Vicki, Hayley, Tasha, Amy. Two of the closest I knew last year but didn't know like I do now.. Robin, Yogin. Then there's Royston.

Then there's the "Out With the Old" part that I really don't like to say because I don't like letting go and it's not out with ALL of them. I don't talk to Camron and Ashley anymore, and frankly, whatever. Matthew, obviously, does not get along with me anymore. My dad was asking about that today over dinner. "You and Matthew used to ALWAYS be together. You'd go there every weekend. You were always on the phone with him. What happened?"
Who else?
I don't want that list to grow longer.

But then of course, we have the "Through thick and thin..." friends. Andy, Kathleen, Jen, Kristina.
I love them.

Then we just have the weirdo Tennessean... ELSA!! I just had to fit her in somewhere. Indiana Jones on your phone.. Your weirdo.

I've realized that you can promise each other to keep in touch but time takes it course, schedules conflict, life gets in the way and change happens. Friends grow apart and you make new ones, but the process of letting go is still really painful.

Through all my yearbook signing I have realized that two songs make REALLY good parting quotes, and MUST be used in the video yearbook my senior year, because it will make me faint.
1. Memory Lane by McFly
2. Seasons of Love from Rent

If I ever become a famous/good writer and kids have to dress up like me for their author project (which is disturbing in itself), I know that every paper will talk about my preoccupation with these three things:
1. time
2. change
3. death
Interesting how they're all related. I have serious issues with handling those three. Time causes change and eventually death. I swear. Any movie/book/poem/event has to just TOUCH on death or partings and farewells and my eyes start leaking like a broken faucet.
Throw in love as the cause of death and it's what goes on in Elaine's head.

So I am gonna go take a shower, watch McFly without my dad yelling at me, be hyper, and write in Vicki's yearbook.

And I will leave you all to contemplate the truth of these song lyrics and to guess who they are by. I swear you guys like the lyrics but you maintain that you dislike them.

The word's around, that she's moved town
About a thousand miles away from here.
And I found something she wrote, a long time ago
And it reminds me of a place I know called...

Memory Lane,
We're here again,
Back to the days,
And I'll remember you always,
And so much has changed,
But it feels like yesterday I went away.

So much has changed
So much has changed
So much has changed
Down Memory Lane